"I don't think his background is cool privileged and interesting but not cool" this!
He's still a Tory and he still doesn't give a shit about people far worse off than him and his.
He clearly has excellent PR people though.
Pepperpot99 spot on!
GE NOW!!
"We don't want cool for a PM thanks, we want competence." Hear hear!
"He served in the army" less than a year, never saw any kind of active service - essentially a bumped up cadet!
"traveled the not so nice bits" actually stuck to fairly safe areas and had guidance and protection
"I can't see how a good education precludes him from being PM." A privileged education does not necessarily equal a good education, he has zero experience of anything approaching real life for ordinary people.
"He might be more competent than Boris, but fuck that’s a low bar."
Terrifyingly so
Adropofreality - nice! You just want to silence those speaking out against the current policies which ARE an attack on the poor, sick and disabled. They HAVE literally lead to deaths - in the form of suicides, but also deaths due to malnutrition, poor medicine storage, prevented from accessing medical help etc.
This govt HAS actively been blocking coroners from obtaining evidence via FOI applications for several years.
"It is incredible how labour supporters still do not realise that the labour government left us in financial dire straits, and when the crash happened in 2008 our country was very nearly ruined." Its incredible to me people still believe that! It was a GLOBAL financial crisis mainly caused by poor economic policies in the USA, the new labour govt (who if you AS me you will see I am not a particular fan of) actually responded very well to, but which Tory protectionist policies have undermined and wrecked!
The idea that tories are better economically has long since been disproven, they've borrowed far more than Labour ever did. They've still spent money too - just on their cronies and supporters and not on essential infrastructure and services.
"He comes from a slightly privileged background" he comes from a VERY privileged background.
"He's actually Scottish, just so posh you can't tell." He might be part scots by heritage he certainly isn't in any meaningful way.
I'd be interested to know exactly how that scots connection came about.
Particularly as he himself talks much of his scots heritage without actually providing this information.
"kind of shows how limited their arguments are" absolutely
Of the 6 running I find raab the least objectionable but I'd prefer almost any other party except tories!